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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.
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What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally it's great to look at - it's a package deal.
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I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.
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I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection
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People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.
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When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth I liked flannel and not polyester.
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It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
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I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.
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One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.
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I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
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Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry.
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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
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Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.
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Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.
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